Review from previous edition The book is a worthwhile addition to the mythological collection of a university library . . . For the graduate student or the uninitiated scholar, this should be required reading, as a paradeigma for the development of scholarly insight over a long period of time. To use an oft-quoted phrase of Buxton's, this book is 'good to think with'.
Richard Buxton is Emeritus Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bristol.